Question

I am declaring a Property – when I work on my dev environment it works fine BUT when i access the staging environment, it always returns null. Why is this happening? The code never changes in both environment. This is the code.

private ProductCollection _productCollection;    

public ProductCollection ProdCollection
{
    get
    {
        _productCollection = MWProductReviewHelper.GetDistinctProductFromTill(StoreId, TDPId, ReceiptId);
        if (_productCollection.Count > 0)
            return _productCollection;
        else
            return null;
    }
}

private ProductCollection _guaranteedProductCollection = new ProductCollection();

public ProductCollection GuaranteedProductCollections
{
    get
    {
        if (_guaranteedProductCollection.Count > 0)
        {
            return _guaranteedProductCollection;
        }
        else
        {
            return _guaranteedProductCollection = MWProductGuaranteedHelper.CheckGuaranteedProductsFromList(ProdCollection);  // the problem appears to be here... 
        }
    }
}

I access is like this.

if (GuaranteedProductCollections.Count > 0)
{
    ProductCollection _prodCollection = GuaranteedProductCollections; // return null
}

It always has one product inside it – I can see this when I put in a breakpoint.

Answer 1

Have you tried to bump that set on two lines? Looks like it might be returning before the set is complete.

public ProductCollection GuaranteedProductCollections
      {
        get
          {
            if (_guaranteedProductCollection.Count > 0)
              {
                 return _guaranteedProductCollection;
              }
            else
              {
                _guaranteedProductCollection = MWProductGuaranteedHelper.CheckGuaranteedProductsFromList(ProdCollection);  // the problem appears to be here... 
                return _guaranteedProductCollection;
              }
           }
      }